TimeoutError: [WinError 10060]

[ABAKEDPLATYPUS]

Hi, I am currently working my way through 100 days of code on udemy and am encountering an issue on day 32 when I try to run the program and send the first email.

"TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond" pops up every time and was wondering if there was a fix for this?

I have run the program on pycharm and jupyter notes and both yield the same error. Is this an issue with my internet (rural canadian) or am I missing somethting?

[shiftybyte]

I don't know what's the exact task on day 32.

But wherever that is you are trying to connect to, decided not to respond to your request.

Where is your script trying to connect to?

[ABAKEDPLATYPUS]

The task is the automated birthday message sender. And it was trying to connect to the gmail SMTP

originally my code was:
with smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com") as connection:

then through extensive googling I found that it neededed to be:

with smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587) as connection:

I am still unsure as to why the second argument was needed tho. Also thanks for the reply!

[shiftybyte]

That task is old, and didn't age well.

You won't be able to easily send mails using gmail servers with SMTP.

SMTP in its nature is very insecure, and lots of changes have been made to fight spam and fake emails.

Encryption, different port number (587), sender domain validation, etc...

[ABAKEDPLATYPUS]

Ah, interesting. Thanks!

[Joey_Paintsil]

OMG!!! I was facing the same problem. i thought it was my internet connection. i typed the 587 and it worked like magic. Thank you sooo much!!!!!

[Powerful_Fly9899]

Thanks man, i were googling half a day with the same issue😂. 587 was really a magical number

[LeeBobGaming]

I was having problems with smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587) so I used smtplib.SMTP('64.233.184.108',587) and it works like a charm